Old School, New School, And Universal BJJ: A Reader Question

It can be difficult to maintain the enthusiasm for training pure self-defense when for most educated, civilized individuals, street fights are an extremely rare occurrence. There is appeal for sport competition as a testing ground for our skills…

Reader Question: I’d like to suggest your editorial board address the issue of “Old School/Traditional JJ” as contrasted to the more advanced “Universal JJ” which has fused the best techniques from traditional Self Defense and Sport to emerge as the most sophisticated fighting JJ there is. This is o…